• In short: Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app.
  • She is alleging unlawful discrimination on the basis of gender identity while the app’s founder has denied she is a woman.
  • What’s next? The hearing is expected to run for four days.

A transgender woman who was excluded from a women-only social media app should be awarded damages because the app’s founder has persistently denied she is a woman, a Sydney court has heard.

In February 2021, Roxanne Tickle downloaded the Giggle for Girls social networking app, which was marketed as a platform exclusively for women to share experiences and speak freely.

Users needed to provide a selfie, which was assessed by artificial intelligence software to determine if they were a woman or man.

Ms Tickle’s photograph was determined to be a woman and she used the app’s full features until September that year, when the account became restricted because the AI decision was manually overridden.

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    7 months ago

    Real /r/unpopularopinion moment.

    I think the thing that the TERFs ultimately miss is that this person was initially welcomed in as a woman and treated as a woman by her peers. She did not disrupt the community or harass any of the participants, until she voiced support for Trans Rights.

    It was at this point that a handful of moderators decided to interrogate her on her original gender and use that as an excuse to boot an active and in-good-standing member.

    So she wasn’t removed for “not being a woman”. She was removed for “disagreeing with the political views of the admin”.

    Anyone familiar with Reddit politics should be able to sympathize.

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      7 months ago

      That’s literally how it always goes is if you don’t like x persons politics you are a bad person.

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      I don’t understand? Reddit politics is ultra liberal, they would eat this women’s app alive for discriminating against the trans.

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        Nah cuz in practice a bunch of dudes will flood it with dick pics saying but I’m a woman too I identify as one.